Understanding Suicidal Behaviour
The Suicidal Process Approach to Research, Treatment and Prevention
Wiley Series in Clinical Psychology
March 2002
340 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
NEW IN PAPERBACK
How can suicide be prevented and treated by mental health
professionals?
Understanding Suicidal Behaviour offers a clinical guide to the
assessment, treatment and prevention of suicidal behaviour, from a
new and useful theoretical perspective. The book presents the
arguments and research evidence that suicidal behaviour is not just
a response to current emotional crises, but is influenced by
persistent characteristics that can be defined in psychological and
biological terms.
The approach in this book accommodates and goes beyond previous
aspects thought important in suicidal behaviour, like mental
disorder and social stress.
The key concept of vulnerability may provide new approaches to
treatment to supplement the existing treatments, which are of
limited efficacy.
Challenges professionals to understand suicidal behaviour from a
basis of vulnerability, personality, and development - and as a
process that includes social, biological, and psychological
interactions
Offers ways in predicting suicidal behaviour and indicating
earlier, effective interventions
Cutting edge discussion of implications for the study and
treatment of suicidal behaviour, by some of the leading authorities
in the field
"...warrants a place on the shelf of any suicidologist, clinician
or researcher with an interest in suicidal behaviour...the editor
and contributors ought to be commended on a comprehensive and lucid
volume." British Journal of Clinical Psychology
List of Contributors.
Introduction.
PART I THE SUICIDAL PROCESS: AN OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH FINDINGS
The Suicidal Process and Related Concepts (K. von Heeringen)
Pathways to Suicide: The Epidemiology of the Suicidal Process Ad
(Kerkhof and E. Arensman)
Stress and Suicidal Behaviour (L. Traskman-Bendz and A.
Westrin)
About the Biological Interface between Psychotraumatic Experiences
and Affective Dysregulation (H.M. van Praag)
Psychological Aspects of the Suicidal Process (J.M.G. Williams and
L.R. Pollock)
Personality Constellations and Suicidal Behaviour (A. Apter and H.
Ofek)
Ethology and the Suicidal Process (R.D. Goldney)
Towards a Psychobiological Model of the Suicidal Process (K. van
Heeringen)
PART II THE SUICIDAL PROCESS APPROACH: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE
UNDERSTANDING AND TREATMENT OF SUICIDAL BEHAVIOUR
Suicide Risk Assessment and the Suicidal-Process Approach (L. Amsel
and J.J. Mann)
The Suicidal Process and Society (U. Bille-Brahne)
The Treatment of Suicidal Behaviour in the Context of the Suicidal
Process K. (Hawton)
Suicide as Goal-directed Action (K. Michel and L. Valach)
Psychopharmacological Approaches to the Suicidal Process (K.M.
Malone and M. Moran)
Psychotherapeutic Implications of the Suicidal Approach (I.
Kienhorst and K. van Heeringen)
The Process Approach to Suicidal Behaviour: Future Directions in
Research, Treatment and Prevention (K. van Heeringen)
Author Index.
Subject Index.
hesitation in recommending this book..." (Accident & Emergency
Nursing, No.10, 2002)
